[citation needed] The Federal University of Technology Minna carried out the environmental impact assessment for the Upper Niger River Basin and Rural Development Authority (UNRBDA).

[6] About N3 billion had been paid by February 2002, when the Minister of Water Resources, Muktar Shagari, gave the contractor a deadline to complete the dam by December that year.

In February 2004 the Minister of State for Water Resources, Bashr Ishola Awotorebo, visited the dam site, and as a result called the contractor to account for delays in the project.

[7] In August 2004, while presenting 500 hand pumps from the Federal Government to the Niger State Governor, Abdulkadir Kure, Mukhtar Shagari said the dam project could be doomed due to non-approval of the budgetary allocation.

[8] In August 2007, Bala Kuta of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, a National House of Assembly representative, pledged to help with the dam project.